Waffly Bollox

well. this week was pretty rough for the world, eh? we've found refuge in wrestling, in good people doing good things, and... imagining what Hangman's garden looks like??? follow us: @wafflybollox.bsky.social, @awfullywaffly.bsky.social and @wrassletrash.bsky.social email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

this episode, we're delighted to be playing Hear Me Out with the hosts of Tea and Tussle, the first ever Black British female-led wrestling podcast. look, yes, maybe November 6th wasn't the happiest day in the world, but we made it work. contains chat about representation in indie wrestling, about promotions who "don't see colour", and lots lots more. more Tea and Tussle: @teaandtussle on X, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok @ajholditdown, @chideraaye and @thenatattack97 on X and find Tea and Tussle in all good podcast apps! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

this week was Halloween and frankly we scared ourselves with how much wrestling we watched. from Progress Chapter 172: Werewolves of London through Mystery Wrestling 11 and Fright Night Dynamite to three hours of Ring of Honor plus Rampage and Collision, there's been a lot to talk about this week. don't worry though, much of it is still very Chuck Taylor centric. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dynamite this week was kind of like a horror movie, and it wasn't even Fright Night. the spectre of Mox and his crew loomed terrifyingly over the whole episode, and unfortunately we were too good at understanding story structure to feel safe when we saw our beloved Chuck Taylor show up. elsewhere, Shelton Benjamin surely qualifies to challenge for the ROH tag belts, Abadon hates cake, and is Tony Khan booking this show to spite us now or what? links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

time for another special episode! we're joined by our pal Kato Garrigues, merch designer extraordinaire. you'll recognise his incredible Scapegoat and Hangman Adam Page tshirt designs, but there are lots more where those came from. this episode, we talk bad teenage screennames, tattooing, and imaginary perfumes... follow Kato: @KGarriguesArt on X @katogarriguesdesigns on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

one week after WrestleDream and things sure are happening!!! this episode, we've given up and made up our own names for Mox's new faction, we celebrated Kenny Omega's birthday, we don't trust Adam Cole one bit, and we love everything the AEW and ROH women's divisions are doing. also Sarah got trapped in a car park. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X, Bluesky and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

did you love WrestleDream? we LOVED WrestleDream. considering how whingey we've been the last few weeks, it feels good to be genuinely happy again. this PPV delivered. it even delivered Chuck Taylor, which was a treat we'd never even dared to hope for. get your verdicts and Heart Ratings here! links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ready to meet your new favourite wrestler? put your hands together for the Centrepiece himself, David Francisco! in his own words, "a smug wrestler, full of himself". but also just a very brilliant human being. join us to chat bad promos, raw cheese, dogs driving cars, and much, much more. More David: @ImDFrancisco on X @ImDavidFrancisco on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch merch and more: davidfrancisco.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

it's official, AEW is sticking around for years to come, and all the backseat economists on X-formerly-known-as-Twitter are fuming. there's actual steam coming out of their ears. it's quite funny. elsewhere, the former Blackpool Combat Club continue to be menaces, the Bucks continue to come out of the gremlin hole, but we are feeling a bit blue this week. maybe because there aren't enough women's matches?? sort it out Tony please. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

we're back!!! this week was AEW's Dynamite Grand Slam, and we found out that yes, Bryan Danielson is cleared to fight, but only if you play his expensive music. we also think women should get more than six minutes on the telly but uhh apparently not everyone agrees. elsewhere: what is Mox gonna call his new faction? and what did he do to his beard this week? we're asking all the important questions, as usual. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

feeling frustrated and helpless seeing the news coming out of Gaza? yeah. we know the feeling. which is why we're thrilled to welcome the co-founders of Pro Wrestling Ceasefire, a series of fundraising events for UNICEF UK, to the podcast for a chat about their work. we also got to debut our new guest format, which listeners of a certain age might dimly recall. but mostly, this is about Pro Wrestling Ceasefire. ⚖️ NEXT SHOW: Justice Will Shine On 🗓️ Thursday 7th November 📍 Chandler Hall, London, SE11 6DU buy tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/prowrestlingceasefire donate to UNICEF UK: https://www.unicef.org.uk/donate/children-in-gaza-crisis-appeal/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

we didn't love this week's Dynamite, or at least we thought we didn't, but then we had a big chat about it and while there were definitely some bits we weren't super into (is Hangman really gonna be a big shouty man forever? why does Mox need to steal Darby's title shot instead of getting his own? what does Tony Khan have against literally every tag team on the roster??) we managed to find some light in the darkness. namely, Chuck Taylor showed up for a whole 30 seconds, and also Matt Taven is a very funny man. look you're never gonna get an episode where we don't find some reason to talk about how much we love some wrestler or other, so, you know, we found our way there in the end. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

it's the pay-per-view from the depths of hell!!! or, as you might know it, AEW All Out 2024. went hard, that one, didn't it? we had MJF and Daniel Garcia trying to break one another's necks, Kris Statlander and Willow Nightingale getting thumbtacks where thumbtacks shouldn't go, a shocking betrayal by the Blackpool Combat Club, and then, finally, the grudge match to end all grudge matches when Swerve Strickland and Hangman Adam Page did unspeakable things to one another inside a steel cage match. we are delighted, worried, over-excited, over-stimulated, and ultimately sated. good stuff. can we have another one? links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

it's been one week since All In, and it's one week until All Out, so that means: time for shenanigans! wrestlers are being shuffled into position and we're already psyched because we know we're getting a Chicago street fight and a sexy steel cage match next week. also, Jon Moxley is up to something, and we wanna know what it is... links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

the biggest AEW pay-per-view of the year is here - and we even got a bonus episode of Dynamite and Collision filmed in the UK! this week we're overtired and overexcited, but we watched a lot of wrestling and we'll still find the energy to cheer for Big Bill somehow. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

we need to talk about All In. specifically, why so many of our guys don't seem to be booked in matches right now? hey Tony, what's going on please? elsewhere, we figure out what stipulation the next Hangman vs Swerve Strickland match should have, and probably offend all of Wales. sorry about that. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

we're two weeks away from All In and we still don't know who Hangman is going to be fighting. we also don't know the rules of a casino gauntlet match. we do know which britwres legend we want to see downing beers in the ring though... links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

you know what’s nice about having Hangman back on TV? we get to talk about Hangman. definitely didn’t do much of that when he wasn’t around. this week, we loved his match with Darby Allin, we thought Ring of Honor was great, we’re still sad about Best Friends, and we have some, uh, interesting thoughts on matches that Tony Khan technically could book for All In… links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

two big bits of business this week: it was Ring of Honor's Death Before Dishonor, and your hosts actually met one another in person for the very first time!! we watched some deathmatches together. the dream! this episode, we are mostly very tired, and a bit grumpy. Athena cheered us up though. our forever champ really is forever, you know. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

things got a bit messy this week. yep, it was Blood & Guts time. unfortunately, the storytelling was as messy as the ring, which is not really how we prefer our wrestling. lots more thoughts (and wailing) in the episode! links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the code WAFFLY10 for 10% off at renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices